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  1. RocketRobbie

    Scale model for testing tips?

    Modeling Flight | NASA
  2. RocketRobbie

    New lightweight 120 hp engine?

    That engine looks very similar to the orbital engine of Frank Sarich, from over 40 years ago.
  3. RocketRobbie

    Discussion Thread: Conceptual Design of "TurboLite", a light turboprop aircraft

    Have you had a look at the Asso X Jewel ?, it looks like a perfect candidate for a turboprop.
  4. RocketRobbie

    Finished Hiscocks' "Design of Light Aircraft"

    If your designing a metal aircraft, then a good text book to use after determining your loads is "practical stress analysis for design engineers" by Jean-Claude Flabel available from here, AMERICAN AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY — stress analysis, aircraft, engineering, mechanics of materials, structures...
  5. RocketRobbie

    Method for LSA design

    I agree with you totally mcrae0104, the LSA standard leaves plenty of room if you know how to design and have an imagination. In Australia we have greater freedom, no maximum speed, and stall speed in landing configuration, that's flaps down, allowing us smaller wing areas and greater wing loading.
  6. RocketRobbie

    Metal Varieze?

    OMAC Aircraft
  7. RocketRobbie

    Reverse Engineering the Future

    You know, thats a fantastic idea ! the 3d printers I have seen only laid down one type of material at a time, that's why I choose aluminium. I was a bit perplexed about how to do something like carbon fiber and a resin at the same time through one nozzle. It sounds silly now, but I didn't...
  8. RocketRobbie

    Reverse Engineering the Future

    I see GA being a recreational activity, or at least that is how I started perceiving it back in the seventies. So I was hoping to keep the discussion about the recreational side and not having things degenerate into the familiy car turning into a flying transport for the masses, because that...
  9. RocketRobbie

    Reverse Engineering the Future

    Its time for me to reiterate a few things, This is not a topic about turning the family car into an automated flying machine, its about reviving GA in the next decade or so to levels as they were in the 60s and 70s as far as pilot population as a percentage of total population. If that is...
  10. RocketRobbie

    Reverse Engineering the Future

    Well, in Australia who hasn't soloed at 16 in a Victa airtourer ?, and at 17 gets an endorsement on the Beech Sundowner after a 45 minute check ride ? The point of the tread is about using your imagination and thinking outside the box. Future GA aircraft will have advanced computerised system...
  11. RocketRobbie

    Reverse Engineering the Future

    Hi Aircar, The "Airtourer" name was set as bait to get you involved in the discussion. :) (Also I really hope Dogzilla gets involved.) GA is in decline across the world, so I hoped that some time in the future there would be a revival. So how would that revival come about ? it would have to...
  12. RocketRobbie

    Reverse Engineering the Future

    The year is 2120 and general aviation is as buoyant as it was in the 1960’s and 70’s. There has been a tremendous resurgence in interest for “old fashioned aircraft flying”. Although we can move about quite efficiently in our automated levitation automobiles, which now have a 100 % safety...
  13. RocketRobbie

    Part 23 NPRM - ARC - ASTM

    I often compare this ratio when analysing other designs, and in general you are right...... up until the point when you have a look at the designs of Michael Colomban, the MC-15, MC-100 and the MC-30. The MC-15 and MC-30 are single seaters and the MC-100 is a 2 seater. All these aircraft have...
  14. RocketRobbie

    Static wing load test

    The following image is from Hiscocks "Design of Light Aircraft". It was an interesting comment when I first read it.
  15. RocketRobbie

    "minimum" personal mobility device --ground and airmobile.

  16. RocketRobbie

    "JSP Project" - A personal jet based on Vulcan C-100

    I agree with these two selections. Flabel's book is very practical for metal aircraft design but he doesn't cover generating the loads, which is where Hiscocks comes in because his book covers all the loads on light aircraft. IMHO Hiscocks book is excellent, but requires some editing and can be...
  17. RocketRobbie

    "JSP Project" - A personal jet based on Vulcan C-100

    Some aeronautical text books that I have purchased in the past seem to be nothing more than a tarted up PhD thesis. There aren't that many "practical" books around.
  18. RocketRobbie

    Bucket List - the aircraft designs that I'd like to be a part of Building!

    That could be the start of another "Flying Car" thread. :gig:
  19. RocketRobbie

    EAA magazine archive?

    Unfortunately it's just a picture with little info.
  20. RocketRobbie

    Bucket List - the aircraft designs that I'd like to be a part of Building!

    Interesting..... the attached sketches from 1983 day dreaming.
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